Qiyan Qiyan

• 1Yedi Kulé - In:C - Kol Dodi19:51
• 2Interlude - Eshet Chayil15:05
• 3Dja Da Kall - Lamma Bada Yatathanna27:54
• 4Sano i Rezio! (Farewell)03:32
• 5Una Matica de Ruda07:32
• Total Runtime01:13:54

Info for Qiyan

European creative music blending with Sephardic Arab-Jewish traditions, American free jazz and Hungarian free music traditions.

"The word 'qiyan' in classical arabic terminology refers to female slaves, mostly Jewish, who were required to entertain their masters through singing, instrumental music and charm. Like the Japanese geisha, the qiyan were highly skilled in music, poetry, and the arts in general.

“This album is completely different from my earlier works so far. We touched “world music”, or more specifically musica mundana, which is a highly sensitive subject. As a result, I think it’s an extremely dynamic and diverse material that, despite its diversity, does not become eclectic. The core of our project is Sephardic music, which by its nature is improvised. These free Arabic-Jewish melodies make the basis of our improvisations, with the use of maqams and the written and improvised structures in tandem with unity and flow-like music." (Péter Ajtai)

Péter Ajtai, double bass
Ákos Szelevényi, tenor saxophone
Dániel Cseke, baritone saxophone
Aram Shelton, alto saxophone
Vito Szelevényi, trumpet
Ádám Mészáros, guitar
Ádám Czitrom, guitar
Áron Porteleki, drums

Peter Ajtai
is one of the young and radical jazz generation, not only breaks with conventions but is also able to play his instrument to the highest standards. Despite his young age he already explored a wide variety of genres such as free jazz, mainstream and folk music.He started his double-bass studies at age sixteen. After graduating from high school he was studying with Jozsef Barcza Horvath. He also studied classical double-bass techniques with Zsolt Fejérvári and Gergely Jardanyi.

He is currently member of various bands including the Geroly Trio, A.M.P., KAMP, Jazz Byzantium, several formations of Bela Agoston. He has been playing in groups lead by such as great musicians as Frank London, Don Byron, Mihaly Dresch, Gabor Gado, Istvan Grencso and Istvan Balo. He performs regularly both in Hungary and in foreign countries on concerts collaboration with the greatest of free and avantgarde improvisation musicians like Johannes Bauer, Lewis Jordan, Eduardo Maraffa, Marco Einedi or Rudi Mahall.

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